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George Sandys (search for this): chapter 13
1881. Carlyle died. 1885. Austin Dobson's At the sign of the Lyre. 1887. Kipling's Plain tales from the Hills. 1887. Matthew Arnold died. 1888. Bryce's The American Commonwealth. 1889. Browning died. 1892. Tennyson died. 1899. South African War. 1901. Queen Victoria died. American 1607. Landing at Jamestown. 1608. John Smith's True relation. 1620. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. 1620. William Bradford's Hitory of Plymouth plantation. 1626. George Sandys's Translation of the first fifteen books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1630-1648. John Winthrop's History of New England. 1640. The Bay Psalm book by Richard Mather, John Eliot, etc. 1640. (The first book printed in America.) 1647. Nathaniel Ward's The simple Cobbler of Agawam. 1650. Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America. 1662. Michael Wigglesworth's The day of doom. 1664. New Amsterdam became New York. 1673-1729. Samuel Sewall's Diary. 1675.
D. Lothrop (search for this): chapter 13
literature, 11 vols., Webster & Co., 1887-90. E. C. Stedman's American Anthology, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900. Ii. Special authorities and references Chapter 1: the Puritan writers (A) Campbell's Anne Bradstreet and her time, D. Lothrop & Co., 1891. B. Wendell's Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest, Makers of America series, 1891. Allen's Jonathan Edwards, American religious leaders Se-ries, 1889. (B) The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse, edited by D. H. H. Ellis's The New spirit, Walter Scott (London), 1890. (B) W. G. Simms's Poems, 2 vols., Redfield (New York), 1853. W. G. Simms's Novels, 18 vols., Redfield (New York), 1884-1886. H. B. Timrod's Poems, 1860. P. H. Hayne's Poems, D. Lothrop & Co., 1882. Sidney Lanier's Poems, Charles Scribner, 1884. Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass, 1855. Walt Whitman's Complete prose works, 1898. Chapter 9: the Western influence (A) This period is too recent to possess authoriti
John Milton (search for this): chapter 13
lete works, Dillingham & Co., 1898. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are the American publishers of Bret Harte's Complete works. Chronological table: events in American and English history and literature. English 1603-1625. James I. 1608. Milton born. 1610-1614. Chapman's Homer. 1611. The King James Bible. 1616. Shakespeare died. 1623. The Shakespeare Folio. 1625-1649. Charles I. 1625. Bacon's Esays. 1626. Bacon died. 1632. Milton's L'allegro andIl Penseroso. 1lth. 1658. Cromwell died. 1660-1686. Charles II. 1663-1678. Butler's Hudibra. 1667. Milton's Paradise Lot. 1667. Swift born. 1670. Dryden Poet-Laureate. 1671. Milton's Paradise Regained, 1671. and Samson Agonises. 1674. Milton and Herrick died. 1678-1684. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progres. 1685-1688. James II. 1688. The English Revolution. 1688. Pope and Gay born. 1700. Dryden died. 1700. Thomson born. 1703-1714. Queen Anne. 1704. Swift's Battle of the b
William Byrd (search for this): chapter 13
Eliot, etc. 1640. (The first book printed in America.) 1647. Nathaniel Ward's The simple Cobbler of Agawam. 1650. Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America. 1662. Michael Wigglesworth's The day of doom. 1664. New Amsterdam became New York. 1673-1729. Samuel Sewall's Diary. 1675. King Philip's War. 1682. Philadelphia founded by Penn. 1689. Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences 1702. Cotton Mather's Magnalia 1706. Franklin born. 1729. William Byrd's History of the dividing line. 1732. Washington born. 1732. Franklin's Poor Richard's almanac begun. 1745. Braddock defeated. 1754. Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of the will. 1764. Otis's Rights of the British colonies. 1766. The Stamp Act repealed. 1770. The Boston Massacre. 1771. Franklin's Autobiography (incomplete). 1773. The Boston Tea-party. 1774. First Continental Congress. 1775. Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. 1775. John Trumbull's McFingal (C
Nichols (search for this): chapter 13
specification. The standard edition of Bryant is P. Godwin's, 4 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1883-1884. For critical estimates of the Knickerbocker School, see particularly Wendell's Literary history, Bk. IV., VI.; and C. E. Woodberry's essay in Hiarper's magazine, July, 1902. Chapter 5: New England period — Preliminary (A) G. T. Curtis's Life of Daniel Webster, 2 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1869-1870. W. H. Channing's Memoirs of William Ellery Channing, 3 vols., Crosby and Nichols, 1848. H. B. Adams's Life and writings of Jared Sparks, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893. George Ticknor's Life of William Hickling Prescott, Ticknor & Reed, 1863. Mrs. J. T. Fields's Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1897. (B) Webster's Works, 6 vols., Little & Brown, 1851. Channing's Works, 1 vol., American Unitarian Association, 1886. Prescott's History of the conquest of Mexico, 3 vols., New York, 1843. Parkman's Works, 12 vols., Little, Brown
M. C. Tyler (search for this): chapter 13
dell's Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest, Makers of America series, 1891. Allen's Jonathan Edwards, American religious leaders Se-ries, 1889. (B) The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse, edited by D. H. Ellis, Charlestown, 1867. Mather's Magnalia, 2 vols., Hartford, 1853. Jonathan Edwards's Works, Carvill (New York), 1830. (There is also a Bohn edition, 2 vols.) Many selections from other works in this period will be found in Stedman and Hutchinson; and not a few in Tyler. Chapter 2: the secular writers A. M. S. Austin's Life of Freneau. The Federalist, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, 1897. (B) Sarah Knight's Journal, reprinted in Albany, 1865. The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Mass. Hist. Soc., 1878-1882. Philip Freneau's Poems, reprinted by J. R. Smith (London), 1861. Sneath and Trumbull's McFingal, edited by B. J. Lossing, New York, 1880. Works of Fisher Ames, 2 vols., Little, Brown & Co., 1854. Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period
E. Cary (search for this): chapter 13
Brown's Novels, 6 vols., McKay, Philadelphia, 1887. Chapter 4: the New York period (A) Life and letters of Washington Irving, by Pierre M. Irving, 4 vols., G. P. Putnam, 1862-64. C. D. Warner's Washington Irving, in American men of letters series, 1881. T. R. Lounsbury's James Fenimore Cooper, in American men of letters series, 1883. P. Godwin's Life of Bryant, 2 vols., D. Appleton, 1878. H. A. Beers's Nathaniel Parker Willis, in American men of letters series, 1885. E. Cary's George William Curtis, in American men of letters series, 1894. (B) Good editions of Irving and Cooper are so numerous as to need no specification. The standard edition of Bryant is P. Godwin's, 4 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1883-1884. For critical estimates of the Knickerbocker School, see particularly Wendell's Literary history, Bk. IV., VI.; and C. E. Woodberry's essay in Hiarper's magazine, July, 1902. Chapter 5: New England period — Preliminary (A) G. T. Curtis
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (search for this): chapter 13
. John Brown's Raid. 1860. Hawthorne's Marble Faun. 1860. Stedman's Poems, lyric and Idyllic. 1861. Lincoln President. 1861. Confederacy organized. 1861. Beginning of the War of the Rebellion. 1863. Emancipation Proclamation. 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. 1865. Surrender of Lee. 1865. Assassination of Lincoln. 1865. Lowell's Commemoration Ode. 1866. Whittier's Snow-bound. 1866. Howells's Venetian days. 1868. E. E. Hale's The man without a country. 1869. Aldrich's Story of a bad boy. 1869. Mark Twain's Innocents abroad. 1870. Bret Harte's Luck of roaring Camp. 1876. Lanier's Poems. 1876. Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1878. Henry James's Daisy Miller. 1879. Stockton's Rudder Grange. 1880. Cable's The Grandissimes. 1882. Longfellow and Emerson died. 1884. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Howells's Rise of Silas Lapham. 1891. Lowell died. 1892. Whittier and Whitman died. 1893. World's Fair at Chicago
William Bradford (search for this): chapter 13
and Sonnets. 1881. Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque. 1881. Carlyle died. 1885. Austin Dobson's At the sign of the Lyre. 1887. Kipling's Plain tales from the Hills. 1887. Matthew Arnold died. 1888. Bryce's The American Commonwealth. 1889. Browning died. 1892. Tennyson died. 1899. South African War. 1901. Queen Victoria died. American 1607. Landing at Jamestown. 1608. John Smith's True relation. 1620. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. 1620. William Bradford's Hitory of Plymouth plantation. 1626. George Sandys's Translation of the first fifteen books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1630-1648. John Winthrop's History of New England. 1640. The Bay Psalm book by Richard Mather, John Eliot, etc. 1640. (The first book printed in America.) 1647. Nathaniel Ward's The simple Cobbler of Agawam. 1650. Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America. 1662. Michael Wigglesworth's The day of doom. 1664. New Amsterdam became
Jonathan Swift (search for this): chapter 13
il War. 1642. Newton born. 1644. Milton's Areopagitica. 1649. Charles I. executed. 1649-1660. The Commonwealth. 1658. Cromwell died. 1660-1686. Charles II. 1663-1678. Butler's Hudibra. 1667. Milton's Paradise Lot. 1667. Swift born. 1670. Dryden Poet-Laureate. 1671. Milton's Paradise Regained, 1671. and Samson Agonises. 1674. Milton and Herrick died. 1678-1684. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progres. 1685-1688. James II. 1688. The English Revolution. 1688. Pope and Gay born. 1700. Dryden died. 1700. Thomson born. 1703-1714. Queen Anne. 1704. Swift's Battle of the books and Tale of a Tub. 1707. Union of Scotland and England. 1707. Fielding born. 1709. The Tatler, edited by Steele. 1814. Wordsworth's The excursion. 1814. Scott's Waverley. 1815. Battle of Waterloo. 1817. Keats's Poems. 1817. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. 1820-1830. George IV. 1821. De Quincey's Confessions of an English opium Eater. 1822-
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